Made of Mud Dana Cooper
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- Release Date: 09/13/2005
- Sales Rank: 188,702
- Label: VIRTUAL LABEL
- UPC: 829372000728
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Made of Mud
| 1 | Step into the Light 2:59 |
| 2 | Bird on the Wing 4:18 |
| 3 | Sit This Out 3:38 |
| 4 | Nothing to Fear 3:08 |
| 5 | Pretty Boy Floyd 3:21 |
| 6 | Comic Tragedy 3:50 |
| 7 | Right Out Loud 3:18 |
| 8 | Made of Mud 4:06 |
| 9 | Death Is a Door 3:56 |
| 10 | Empty Glass 2:59 |
| 11 | World of Hurt 3:47 |
About this Artist
Editorial Reviews
Dana Cooper has been knocking around the margins of popular music for a long time now; his major-label debut was released in 1973, and the lead-off track of this album, "Step into the Light," was co-written with his old partner Shake Russell three decades ago. But, perhaps because of his juvenile-sounding tenor and artless phrasing (somewhere between Jackson Browne and the Eagles' Timothy B. Schmit) and the timelessness of his folk-rock arrangements, he sounds much younger than his years on Made of Mud. His literate, if cliché-ridden lyrics range from confessional statements of love like "Right out Loud" to antiwar topical efforts like "Sit This One Out" and philosophical musings like the title song. He can rock out, as he does on those last two songs, or take a slower, more formal approach, as on "Bird on the Wing." And sometimes, staccato rhythms and slight atonality complement the abstraction of the lyric, as on "Comic Tragedy." Made of Mud is not likely to change the journeyman nature of a career that has kept Cooper working without granting him much popular recognition, but it is unfailingly appealing and shows glimmers of individual talent. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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